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How to spell language

Language is spelled L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E. The W sound you hear after the first G is the U, then AGE: lan-gu-age.

hear itlan·guage/'læŋgwɪdʒ/nounLong vowels

What it means: A system of communication using words or symbols.

In a sentence: She learned a new language to talk with her friend.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: linguistic, linguistics, bilingual, multilingual, nonverbal. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Language comes from Latin 'lingua', meaning 'tongue' or 'speech'. The same root also gave us words like 'linguistics' and even 'linguine', which was named because the pasta strands look like little tongues.

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